Increases in alpha oscillatory power reflect an active retinotopic mechanism for distracter suppression during sustained visuospatial attention.

By S. Kelly, Edmund C. Lalor, Richard B. Reilly, John J. Foxe. Journal of Neurophysiology, 2006

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Prestimulus oscillations predict visual perception performance between and within subjects (2007, background): “Moreover, alpha power may increase contralaterally to the hemifield where a visual stimulus has to be ignored (Rihs et al., 2007; Kelly et al., 2006 ).”
EEG and MEG: relevance to neuroscience. (2013, neutral): “It has been shown as well in the visual cortex even with a retinotopic spatial distribution (Kelly et al., 2006; Rihs et al., 2007).”
Alpha Oscillations Correlate with the Successful Inhibition of Unattended Stimuli (2011, background): “An active increase of alpha ipsilateral to the attended side is in line with previous experiments showing an occipital alpha power increase compared with baseline contralateral to the ignored hemifield (Kelly et al., 2006; Yamagishi et al., 2003; Worden et al., 2000).”
Optimal sustained attention is linked to the spectral content of background EEG activity: greater ongoing tonic alpha (∼10 Hz) power supports successful phasic goal activation (2007, background): “In the most recent of these experiments (Kelly et al., 2006), bilateral flickering stimuli were presented during a sustained visuo-spatial attention task.”
α-Band Electroencephalographic Activity over Occipital Cortex Indexes Visuospatial Attention Bias and Predicts Visual Target Detection (2006, background): “In addition, increases have been documented contralateral to the unattended location (Worden et al., 2000; Yamagishi et al., 2003; Kelly et al., 2006), potentially reflecting an active “inhibitory” process protecting against visual input from task-irrelevant positions.”
The Role of Alpha-Band Brain Oscillations as a Sensory Suppression Mechanism during Selective Attention (2011, methodology): “This report specifically addresses evidence for the role of oscillatory brain mechanisms in selective attention (e.g., Vanni et al., 1997; Foxe et al., 1998; Gruber et al., 1999; Shibata et al., 1999; Sokolov et al., 1999; Worden et al., 2000; Sauseng et al., 2005; Yamagishi et al., 2005; Kelly et a”
Increased Alpha-Band Power during the Retention of Shapes and Shape-Location Associations in Visual Short-Term Memory (2011, background): “…shown that shifts of covert spatial attention are accompanied by increased alpha-band oscillations over posterior sensors ipsilateral to the direction of attention, and decreased alpha contralateral to the focus of attention (see, e.g., Worden et al., 2000; Kelly et al., 2006; Thut et al., 2006).”
Mechanisms of selective inhibition in visual spatial attention are indexed by α‐band EEG synchronization (2007, methodology): “In particular, we aimed to focus on anticipatory a-synchronization, thought to originate in visual areas tuned to the unattended position and interpreted as reflecting active inhibition of these locations (Worden et al., 2000; Kelly et al., 2006).”
Prestimulus Oscillatory Activity in the Alpha Band Predicts Visual Discrimination Ability (2008, background): “…it was demonstrated in visual cued attention experiments that alpha power increased in occipital areas ipsilateral to the hemifield attended to, compared with when this hemifield was ignored (Worden et al., 2000; Fu et al., 2001; Yamagishi et al., 2005; Kelly et al., 2006; Thut et al., 2006).”
Temporal expectation based on the duration variability modulates alpha oscillations during working memory retention (2022, background): “The lateralised modulation of alpha power has been found sensitive to the deployment of spatial attention (Foxe and Snyder, 2011; Kelly et al., 2006; Kuo et al., 2017; Rihs et al., 2009; Worden et al., 2000).”
Nested oscillations and brain connectivity during sequential stages of feature-based attention (2020, background): “…been mostly described in relation to anticipatory, proactive-like mechanisms to filter-out irrelevant features and locations (Foxe and Snyder, 2011; Kelly et al., 2006; Oliveira et al., 2014; Snyder and Foxe, 2010; Worden et al., 2000; but see Noonan et al., 2016), whereas post-stimulus, α-band…”